13 Comments

Mike

Jul 23, 2014 at 8:10pm

If he turns up in Canada watch how he exploited his actions for the peace loving and totally innocent Islamist criminal organization. Boy will the flag wavers turn out.
We need a faster way of terminating these so called Canadians from our shores. If not I will go to Israel and do what I can for them.

Martin Dunphy

Jul 23, 2014 at 8:23pm

Mike: One man's meat...

Would the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion have fallen on the wrong side of that law if it existed back when the XV International Brigade was looking for volunteers to fight in Spain?
I'm sure the Republicans would have been branded as terrorists by someone...

uknow

Mercenaries

Jul 23, 2014 at 11:24pm

Being a mercenary is nothing new. There's neo nazis from Europe currently fighting in the irregular pro-kiev Ukraine militias against the Eastern seperatists. I bet if somebody here took a year long vacation to shoot up Eastern Ukraine while waving EU support flags nothing would happen when they returned, because that conflict supports the feds interests.

As for this guy if he really is running around Syria with ISIS, he just needs to snitch the moment he returns for a get out of jail free card. He has valuable information on their vetting procedures for new recruits, internal command structure and how to rank up in the organization by seeing others who have or by doing so himself. Gold intel so the world's intel agencies can field their own spies to join.

If you want to be a mercenary join the french foreign legion. Better pay, less likely to get shot in the back by your own guys because that's how you get promotions in militant groups.

Bob

L

Jul 24, 2014 at 2:11am

So, what about all those Canadian Jews who travel to Israel and join the military, commit atrocities and war crimes for which they will never be punished, and then come home? Why the racist double-standard, why aren't they prosecuted too?

Alan Layton

Dave

Jul 24, 2014 at 7:35am

Seems to me we might be smarter and farther ahead to deal with the root issues that are causing these people to join extremist groups. Criminalizing this will do nothing to solve the problem it will simply make it worse.